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UNITED STATES GOLF ASS'N v. ST. ANDREWS SYSTEMS

No. 83-5629.

749 F.2d 1028 (1984)

UNITED STATES GOLF ASSOCIATION, Appellant, v. ST. ANDREWS SYSTEMS, DATA-MAX, INC., Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided November 28, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Morrill J. Cole, Cole, Schotz, Bernstein, Meisel & Forman, P.A., Rochelle Park, N.J., Lee N. Abrams (Argued), Mayer, Brown & Platt, Chicago, Ill., Stephen M. Trattner (Argued), Washington, D.C., for appellant.

Byard G. Nilsson, Harold E. Wurst (Argued), Nilsson, Robbins, Dalgarn, Berliner, Carson & Wurst, Los Angeles, Cal., John G. Gilfillan, III, Franklyn C. Steinberg, III, Carella, Byrne, Bain & Gilfillan, Newark, N.J., for appellee.

Before ADAMS, BECKER, Circuit Judges and VAN DUSEN, Senior Circuit Judge.

OPINION OF THE COURT

BECKER, Circuit Judge.

This appeal presents two interesting questions in the law of intellectual property. It arises from a lawsuit brought by appellant, the United States Golf Association ("U.S.G.A."), the governing body of amateur golf in the United States. The U.S.G.A. has developed a system for deriving the "handicaps" of amateur golfers, the core of which is a mathematical formula. Appellee Data-Max, Inc., d/b/a St. Andrews Systems...

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